She was peering in curiously at them over the low window-blind.
"I have promised to marry, mother," he said, "and marry I must." The tears came into his eyes as he spoke and dimmed his sight, but he could just discern the fatal face outside moving away again from the window.
His mother's head sank lower.
"Are you faint ?" he whispered.
"Broken-hearted, Isaac." He stooped down and kissed her.

The shadow, as he did so, returned to the window, and the fatal face peered in curiously once more..